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In our recent webinar, Getting the Most Value of Your Project Resources, we had the chance to really dive deep into Q&A, and get some good insight from our audience about resource planning and management. What is the advantage of managing projects in a tool over a spreadsheet? Of course, if you are a one-person show...
You’ve done the groundwork for creating a successful innovation program. You’ve learned what mistakes to avoid, and even moved forward with adopting innovation management software like Planview IdeaPlace to enable innovation in a way that’s valuable and repeatable. So why aren’t things taking off how you imagined they would? If you’re still struggling to make...
Shifting demographics, cross-organizational initiatives, and agile approaches are changing the way today’s teams do their jobs. People work anywhere and everywhere, across time zones, locations and cultures. More and more people are managing projects on a regular basis, though they’re not officially project managers. In addition, companies are working faster to get products and services...
Find out how quantifying Cost of Delay helps organizations improve prioritization, make trade-off decisions and create a sense of urgency. About This Webinar In this webinar, I’ll explain how visualizing the impact of delay helps us understand value and urgency. Topics covered include: – An introduction to Cost of Delay – Why Cost of Delay is...
So let’s say you’ve successfully delivered the business case for product portfolio management (PPM) and convinced your team that it’s time to take the next step in your organization’s innovation maturity (I recommend reading “Making the Case for Change” if you’re not there yet). The next step is to vet the vendors and select the...
Sometimes bad habits don’t seem all that dangerous — at least in the short-term. After all, it can take years to see the lasting effects of say, eating more than your fair share of sugar, or ignoring that dull ache in your knee. But bad business habits can throw a major wrench in innovation before...
For many organizations, portfolio planning happens once a year or once a quarter and consists of hours of preparing, evaluating [read: arguing] and justifying project investments. At the end of it all, the plan is well thought out, extremely thorough and in line with business goals. Success. Or is it? As soon as the plan...
At last week’s DevOps Enterprise Summit we got to hear how industry leaders are transforming the way that software is built. Most speakers told stories of automating the build, release or continuous delivery pipeline, and the cultural transformation that followed. One talk stood out from all the others because it described a transformation that went...
Batch on Flow My name is Bob Batcheler, but my friends and colleagues call me Batch. I am new at Planview AgilePlace. When I started here, I expected the ritual hazing about my last name, mostly having to do with my marital status, but Planview AgilePlace broke the mold. Early on, either @leankitjon or @indomitablehef (AgilePlace’s COO and CEO,...
Over the weekend, we watched an awesome Q&A between Innovation Enterprise and Planview IdeaPlace customer MetLife’s John Geyer. As MetLife’s Senior VP of Innovation, Geyer spends quite a lot of his time thinking about intelligent design and collaboration, and just about everything he does is in an effort to drive innovation deeper into the DNA...
